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Michael is a silent man. He keeps his murderous secrets from his family, which leads a pious middle-class life. But little boys want to know what their fathers do for a living. So one night his young son (Tyler Hoechlin) sneaks a ride in Daddy's car and witnesses a murder committed by Rooney's natural son Connor (Daniel Craig). Connor does not trust Michael Jr.'s ability to keep a secret, so to ensure silence, he begins wiping out the entire Sullivan family. The survivors, the two Michaels, must now run, to Perdition (where the boy's aunt...
...financial news just kept getting worse. Despite asset sales and desperate accounting ploys, concerns over the servicing and payment of Vivendi's €30 billion group debt last week led Moody's to rate Vivendi Universal bonds as junk and sent share prices tumbling ever further. Inexplicably, Messier fell silent when panicked investors needed to hear from him most. Ultimately, Messier was undone by the very French old guard he considered obsolete. The nation's business establishment - led by the doyen of French industry, Claude Bébéar - lobbied for his ouster. That behind-the-scenes intrigue reportedly...
Young white women in white togas are shown doing an interpretive dance at a pond; records from the event say they are nymphs representing nature and the elements. The silent film of the pageant shows a young white woman as the “Goddess of Peace” standing elevated above soldiers and rioters. Playing into the standard line of Lexington’s immense importance, the local paper wrote last week that this scene represents “the debt the world owes to Lexington for her attainment of liberty...
Plop...click...whirr. It is not exactly lilting, but that electronic tune is rivaling Silent Night and Jingle Bells for popularity this Christmas season. It is the sound of videocassette recorders gathering tapes into their cradles and, with a twinkling of lights and the push of buttons, bringing forth a host of intriguing new images on millions of TV screens. The machines, universally known as VCRs, are selling at nearly double the rate of a year ago; with the holiday boost, December sales alone are expected to reach 1 million, a single-month record. ...Plop...click...whirr. The sound...
...shots, and with most of the dance done in just two shots) is Fred's test to see how far Ginger will follow him - as a dancer, because in these movies to dance is to love - and how expertly she can keep up with him. Astaire's singing, Rogers' silent re-acting and the pair's dance coax each bit of drama and humor out of the lyric and music. What follows is my attempt to render complex emotions and glorious movement in prose; it's just the Cliff Notes to a blithe masterpiece. So rent...